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To be honest, I hated this interview. I felt like they knew who they were going to offer the role to but I was a person they interviewed in case their top choice declined the offer. They asked behavioral questions based on my resume, I tried to smile throughout the interview. I think I was overqualified for the role.
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Engineer I, Research and Development

Interviewed at Abbott

3.7
May 12, 2022

To be honest, I hated this interview. I felt like they knew who they were going to offer the role to but I was a person they interviewed in case their top choice declined the offer. They asked behavioral questions based on my resume, I tried to smile throughout the interview. I think I was overqualified for the role.

Machine Learning Systems : Create a filter for Marketplace that prevents from suggesting weapons? How do you get your data ? How do you differentiate real weapons from kitchen knife ? How do you maintain your system over time ? Behavioural : Explain a situation where you conflicted with a collaborator? Explain your research briefly ?
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AI Research Engineer

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Oct 31, 2025

Machine Learning Systems : Create a filter for Marketplace that prevents from suggesting weapons? How do you get your data ? How do you differentiate real weapons from kitchen knife ? How do you maintain your system over time ? Behavioural : Explain a situation where you conflicted with a collaborator? Explain your research briefly ?

Leetcode Questions: Q. In a 2D matrix, find the minimum sum when going from top left to the bottom right and only taking steps right or down. Q. Find the length of the longest path (between any two nodes) in a binary tree. ML Questions: Q. How does SVM work? Q. How does BERT/Transformer work? Q. What to do if the length of the sentence is greater than BERT limit? Q. How does momentum work in gradient descent? Q. How is RoBERTa different from BERT?
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Research Engineer

Interviewed at TikTok

3.2
Mar 18, 2022

Leetcode Questions: Q. In a 2D matrix, find the minimum sum when going from top left to the bottom right and only taking steps right or down. Q. Find the length of the longest path (between any two nodes) in a binary tree. ML Questions: Q. How does SVM work? Q. How does BERT/Transformer work? Q. What to do if the length of the sentence is greater than BERT limit? Q. How does momentum work in gradient descent? Q. How is RoBERTa different from BERT?

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